New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-12
INTRENCHED IN HIS FORTRESS.
HOW AN FRESHMAN WILL RESIST ARREST
ARTILLERY ALONE CAN DIsLoDGE HIM - MR..
O'BRIFN's CONDITION.


Copyrights 1887: M The Ne,o. York Tribune
DUBIIN Nov. 11.-One of the most remarkable
features of these curious and exciting times i'll Ire
land is the resistance Mr. Douglas Pyne, NJ. r.. is
preparing to offer to the attempt to arrest him. Mr.
Pyne, who is one of the members for the
County Waterford, has been summoned under
the Coercion act for one of his speeches Having
utterly dlsregarded the summons warrant has
been issued for his arrest.
Mr. Pyne is the pOssessor of an old baronial
stronghold in an excellent state of preservation,
which is known as Lisfinnv Castle 1t stands on a
commanding emincnce his grounds and the walls
are nineteen feet thick. This Mr.. Pyne has so
fortified and entrenched that he believes 1t is now
impregnable except to the cssaults of artillery.
DETERMINED TO STAND SIEGE.
Here he is determined to stand siege, when
the forces of the Crown come to arrest
him. He will do his best he says. to hold his
castle until Parliament again assemblies. Until
that tmo he prefers if he to he in prison. 10 he
III prison III his own castle. where he can feed him
self He has laid in a three months stock of pro-
visions. and the only thing he at all fears he may
run short of is water; as ii is he has a gallon day
for hundred days. and if the supply fails
him. he expects the roof 10 supply HIM with
raInwater He has timed meats, which
will afford him pound day for hundred days,
and other nccessaries In like measure, Altogether
he finds the abode very comfortable He adds that
it is more pleasant there than ia Jail wearing the
prison Clothes and living on wIetched prison fare.
TIE POLICE WATCHING THE STRONGHOLD.
The place is becoming scene of great interest.
Police reconnoitre night and day around the fort
rcss. but yet nothing is certain to the steps
the Government propose to take TO execute the
warrant. On Wednesday the LSmore Board OF
Guardians passed the following resolution:
spect toward Mr.. Pyne, their chairman, and
that the guardians proceed in body to visit Mr.
Pyne IN his castle. where he bids defiance to bis
Tory OppressOrs'
Accordingly the guardians drove in a wagon to
Lisfnny. Mr.. Pyne showed them over his
stronghold and then speeches made
from one % the loopholes to tho
large meeting tlat had by that time assembled.
Mr.. Pyne assured his hearers that he was
prepared for any difficulties marked ont
for him. but If Mr. Balgour wished to
get him. he would first have 10 90 through nine
teen feet of stone wall He would have to
demolish the place with artillery before 1t could
be taken.
There is no doubt unes, the capture be effected
by strategy or the Government desis, that there
will be exciting work at Lsfnny, for Mr. Pyne
while somewhat eccentric, Is man of
great determination of character. and in
the present matter is very much In earnest
GREAT CHANGE IN TULLAMORE PRISON
A great change has come over the authorities OF
Tullamcrc prison within the last few days. They
have rractcally surrendered before the indomIt-
able stand made by Mr.. O'Bren and before
the blaze Of public opinion which, in
spite Of all their for secrecy has managed 10
pierce their walls. They have ceased to punish
Mr. OBricn by bread and water diet for refusing to
wear prison clothes and they have
moved hIm to a boarded cell, in which
tn re is fire. These small mercies
were not granted the initiative of the aut hori-
ties, but III response to the imperative reports Of
DR.. Moorehcad, the Catholic magistrate, which,
publishing to the world they did the truth
about Mr.. OBriens condition and the barbarities
to which he beng subjected were more
than Mr.. Balfour could fly In tho face Of
DERIVED OF TIE BOOKS SENT TO HIM.
Yet Mr.. O'Brlen is not allowed to read any books
except his prayer.book and Bible, not even New
mans Works a set of.w hch a friend has sent to
the Jail, nor the Imitation OF Christ" which is
bis favorite among all books aud beautiful little
copy of which lady friend has < iven the chaplain
for him. Nor is this man of letters lslowed to
begue 1.-The long hours of his prison solitude by
writing; 1t is forbidden him to have pens, pencil
or paper
If you turn to Silvio Peco's account of hls
prison. to Baron rronck's adventures, to the
memoirs of Linguet, Dumouriez aud Marnontel.
to Casanovas description of his Imprisonment in
the Fomb you will find that neither under the
Austrian rule nor under Frederick the Great, nor
under the Venetian Inquisition, nor in the French
Bastie itself weretpoitica prisoners trea ted Mr..
BafOur is now treating Mr.. O'Bricn.
7. p. GILL, N. 7.